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  2. Deforestation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    For the 300 years following the arrival of Europeans, land was cleared, mostly for agriculture, at a rate that matched that of population growth. [7] During the 19th century, while the U.S. population tripled, the total area of cropland increased by over four times, from seventy-six million to three hundred nineteen million acres.

  3. Pre-Columbian woodlands of North America - Wikipedia

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    Lightning and humans burned the understory of longleaf pine every 1 to 15 years from Archaic periods until widespread fire suppression practices were adopted in the 1930s. Burning to manage wildlife habitat did continue and was a common practice by 1950.

  4. Deforestation - Wikipedia

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    A meta-analysis found that mixed species plantations would increase carbon storage alongside other benefits of diversifying planted forests. [187] Although a bamboo forest stores less total carbon than a mature forest of trees, a bamboo plantation sequesters carbon at a much faster rate than a mature forest or a tree plantation. Therefore, the ...

  5. Secondary forest - Wikipedia

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    Over time, trees that were characteristic of the original forest begin to dominate the forest again. [5] It typically takes a secondary forest 40 to 100 years to begin to resemble the original old-growth forest; however, in some cases a secondary forest will not succeed, due to erosion or soil nutrient loss in certain tropical forests . [ 6 ]

  6. Forests of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The most heavily forested regions of the U.S. are Maine, New Hampshire, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands and West Virginia; the least heavily forested regions are North Dakota, Nebraska, and South Dakota. [2] The U.S. had a 2018 Forest Landscape Integrity Index mean score of 6.65/10, ranking it 67th globally out of 172 countries. [6]

  7. Forest cover by state and territory in the United States

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    In the United States, the forest cover by state and territory is estimated from tree-attributes using the basic statistics reported by the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the Forest Service. [2] Tree volumes and weights are not directly measured in the field, but computed from other variables that can be measured. [3] [4]

  8. Holiday History: Why Do We Put Up and Decorate Trees?

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    According to The Guardian, Jami Warner, the executive director of the American Christmas Tree Association said that 84 percent of the 94 million people displaying Christmas trees in 2021 were ...

  9. Category:Trees of Northern America - Wikipedia

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    The Trees of North America. For the purposes of this category, "North America" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD), which calls it Northern America , namely as one of the nine "botanical continents".